Writers On Writing Quotes
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....
I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.
Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.
The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.
Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.
There are times when I'm writing where time feels irrelevant. Those are the moments I know I'm creating magic.
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.
The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.
Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.
A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.
Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food, ” is already available in English.
Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.